Shadi el-Manaei

Shadi el-Manaei is the leader of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, an Egyptian terrorist group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in 2014.

Biography
Shadi el-Manaei was born to a Sunni Muslim Egyptian family, and was a Bedouin. His uncle was a sheikh of a tribe that would ironically be responsible for killing 4 al-Qaeda militants in 2014. Shadi el-Manaei became the leader of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a Sunni terrorist group that attacked Israel and the Egyptian government in the Sinai Peninsula, and was responsible for bombing gas pipelines from Egypt to Israel and Jordan, in addition to various hit-and-run attacks on Egypt and a few on Israel. On 10 November 2014, he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, and became a leader of their "Wilayat Sinai" (Sinai Province). On 1 July 2015, he was responsible for attacking several Egyptian army outposts and the police checkpoint at Sheikh Zuweid, leaving 17-64 government troops and 100 militants dead in the largest battle of the Sinai Peninsula since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.